ASTB-E Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass

ASTB-E Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass indicated altitude - the uncorrected altitude read directly from the altimeter when it is set to the current altimeter setting true altitude - the vertical distance of the airplane above sea level; actual altitude absolute altitude - the vertical distance of an airplane above terrain or ground level pressure altitude - the altitude above the standard datum plane; a theoretical level where air pressure (corrected to 15* C) equals 29.92 inches of mercury indicated airspeed - measures air pressure reading from the pitot tube calibrated airspeed - the airspeed that is calculated after taking into account mechanical and positional errors including the aircraft's altitude equivalent airspeed - the airspeed calculated after accounting for compression effects; usually only necessary at speeds over 200mph true airpeed - the airspeed that is calculated after compensation for temp changes as well as atmospheric pressure changes forecastle - bow half of the deck of a ship 2 | P a g e Katelyn Whitman© 2025, All Rights Reserved. freeboard - distance from waterline to the deck of a ship draft - distance between bottom of ship to the waterline wing load - ratio of wing surface to aircraft weight bernoulli's principle - idea that faster moving air exerts less pressure than slower moving air newton's 1st law of motion - a body at rest tends to stay at rest and a body in motion tends to stay in motion, unless acted upon by an outside force (law of inertia) newton's 2nd law of motion - force must be applied to overcome the inertia of an object; when object is acted upon its acceleration is directly proportional to the given amount of force and inversely proportional to the mass of the object (F=m*a) newton's 3rd law of motion - every action results in a simultaneously equal and opposite reaction newton's law of universal gravitation - any two bodies in the universe attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them inertia - property by which an object resists accelerating in a different way than its current state weight - mass of an object in relation to gravitational force (F=G[M*m/r2]) 3 | P a g e Katelyn Whitman© 2025, All Rights Reserved. velocity - the rate at which something moves in a given direction vector - a force applied in a certain direction elevator - used to move plane around its lateral axis mass - constant measure of the amount of matter that makes up an object (m=d*v) aileron - used to move plane around its longitudinal axis rudder - moves plane around vertical axis pitch - term used to describe movement caused by the use of an aircraft's elevators roll - term used to describe movement caused by the use of an aircraft's ailerons yawl - term used to describe movement caused by the use of an aircraft's rudder skid - flight condition where the airplane's tail follows a path outside the path of its nose slip - a maneuver used by pilots to increase an aircraft's rate of decent or reduce its airspeed and to compensate for a crosswind during landing; o